President Donald Trump's executive order to change the childhood vaccine schedule could endear him to some “Make America Healthy Again” voters who want more flexibility on immunization.

Doctors worry that President Donald Trump’s new executive order on vaccines will stoke fear and confusion among parents at a time when measles is raging, immunization rates are falling and children are heading back to school.

Medicaid said it won't pay for gender-affirming surgeries or hormones for transgender minors.

Congo's Ebola outbreak has claimed at least 2,000 lives as it has become the fastest-growing on record.

Missy Mazzoli's opera “The Galloping Cure” explores the opioids epidemic through a haunting allegory.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that calls for spacing out childhood vaccines into separate medical visits and splitting the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three different single-disease shots.

A Georgia woman says she was wrongly diagnosed with aggressive cancer due to a labeling error and underwent an unneeded hysterectomy.

A 2-year-old girl whose parents sued a Texas hospital to prevent it from testing if she was brain-dead after she drowned on Memorial Day has been removed from life support and died.

President Donald Trump’s administration plans to overhaul Head Start, a key early education program for the nation's neediest children.

Federal officials have traced a multistate salmonella outbreak to jalapeño peppers from a grower in Sinaloa, Mexico.

A Senate committee has voted along party lines to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress over his refusal to answer questions at a hearing on his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In some children, some seemingly unrelated signs can point to tethered cord syndrome -- a condition where the spinal cord attaches to tissue instead of moving freely within the spinal canal.

Parasitic illness cases in 15 states have been linked to iceberg lettuce.

Dr. Erica Schwartz has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Scientists at a biotech company have used gene editing to create two hypoallergenic beagles that don't trigger allergies.

Dr. Anthony Fauci’s decision to invoke the Fifth Amendment before Congress will be put to the test this week.

Backpacks often become too heavy for kids, as students carry laptops, textbooks and more.

Ebola has killed over 1,700 people in eastern Congo, becoming the fastest-growing outbreak of the disease.

As students return to playgrounds and sports fields, falls and sports-related injuries often follow.

President Donald Trump's administration is planning to overhaul the Head Start program.

State health officials say two people have died in the cyclospora outbreak in Michigan.

In parts of the U.S. where venomous snakes are more common, training programs aim to protect pets from getting bitten.

Swaths of sargassum are blanketing the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, suffocating shorelines and snuffing out marine life while spooking visitors in areas that depend heavily on tourism.

Millions of older adults on Medicare prescription drug coverage could face higher monthly costs in 2027.

A Supreme Court decision allowing the Trump administration to end temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of Haitians is rippling far beyond immigration courts.

President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has cleared a hurdle in the Senate.

Ebola has killed over 1,500 people in eastern Congo, marking a 50% increase in about a week.

Dr. Anthony Fauci will face a contempt of Congress vote in a Senate committee next week after he invoked the Fifth Amendment in a hearing about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The head of the U.N. food agency is warning that the fastest growing Ebola outbreak ever recorded is leaving thousands more people hungry in eastern Congo.

Five states have agreed to accept nuclear waste from around the country in exchange for federal help to develop nuclear energy and create thousands of jobs.